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Start with a state, province, territory, or federal jurisdiction to browse the statutes, regulations, and other primary-law collections currently available on CaseLite.

How to Search

Four ways to find a decision

Case name

Enter party names as they appear in the decision, such as Brown v. Board or R. v. Jordan.

Citation

Use a reported or neutral citation, such as 347 U.S. 483 or 2016 SCC 27.

Docket number

Use the court file or docket identifier when you have a filing but not a citation.

Party / case name

Search by party or style of cause, then narrow by court or date on Advanced Search.

Questions

Frequently asked

Is CaseLite free to use?

Yes. You can search and read available decisions and primary-law documents on CaseLite without creating an account.

What can I search on CaseLite?

You can search court decisions by case name, citation, or docket number on Advanced Search, with court and date filters. CaseLite is optimized for finding a known case; keyword search over full opinion text is available in Casey (Caseway’s AI research product). You can also browse statutes, regulations, and other primary-law collections by jurisdiction.

Which jurisdictions are available?

CaseLite provides case search for the United States and Canada. Its primary-law browse pages currently cover Florida, California, Texas, and New York in the United States, plus federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions in Canada.

Are CaseLite decisions generated by AI?

No. Search results link to court decisions and legal documents sourced from published legal records. CaseLite does not generate the text of cases or citations. See Caseway's CaseLite data and methodology notes at https://caseway.ai/caselite/methodology.

How is CaseLite different from Casey?

CaseLite is Caseway's free case lookup and primary-law browse product (citation, docket, and name-based search). Casey is Caseway's paid AI legal research assistant with full-text and conversational search over the corpus.

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